Legal Opinion
Unilever Acquisition Corp. v. Richardson-Vicks, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 27, 1985No. 85 Civ. 7239 (RO)PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
OWEN, District Judge.
Richardson-Vicks Inc., the makers of Vicks Vaporub and other well known products, is resisting a takeover attempt by the Unilever Acquisition Corp., a newly-formed subsidiary of Unilever United States, Inc., owners of, among others, Lever Bros., a household products company, and Thomas J. Lipton, Inc., the tea and soup manufacturer. Richardson-Vicks is a publicly-held Delaware corporation, with some one-third or more of its stock controlled or held by various Richardsons.
After earlier feelers in the summer of 1985, Unilever in early September sent a…
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